Dan, I don't think there's a problem with the topics and such. Right now a lot of people are on holiday, some even searching for the courthouse records that were lost in the first skirmish every town seemed to have during the Civil War wherein it's courthouse was burned to the ground or for a campground out in the middle of a Kansas wheatfield where 300 people they've never met are waiting for them to call it a reunion. Down here in Tennessee we're doing our best to cool of and avoid the 104 degree temps we had today. Hang in there. They'll be back Wanda VanderVeen > > I am not exactly sure what to use to get more people posting. > Oregon has a lot to offer in topics. > People, > places and History, > plus things members do > to donate time and efforts to our cause. > > So how is every one doing on thier projects ? > Dan M

I agree with Wanda - people are just lurking in cyber space. With school out and all, and just trying to keep cool, sometimes genealogy has to take a back seat - here in Oklahoma we are just trying to keep our lawn alive. I have been working on my Casner/Carsner/Carsoner line for years and never tire of it. Right now I'm waiting on a magazine to come out in September that will carry a story on one of the Carsner people who migrated to OR where he died, but where descendants still live - they've already given me notice they will publish it. I have to believe there are regional magazines, quarterlies, reviews out in the Pacific Northwest where one might get these published, but as yet I've not found one - the only ones I've located are in the Southwest. I did find a university quarterly in the NW but it was strictly for scholars. I have spent years working on this line and would hope that 50-100 years from now when a descendant decides they want to trace it, I could make it easier for them - these people hid under every rock, behind every tree, took every fork in the road, hid in plain site, were fortune seekers, some of them were just downright mean, some were horse thieves and murderers - but I still have a few gaps that I continue to work on. Anyone have any suggestions on possible magazines, quarterly, reviews, other typesof publications where one might submit for publication. These are not written in the traditional "genealogy" format, but geared for general readership and are hisotrically factual. Hang in there. They'll be back Wanda VanderVeen > > I am not exactly sure what to use to get more people posting. > Oregon has a lot to offer in topics. > People, > places and History, > plus things members do > to donate time and efforts to our cause. > >